Description

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Contemporary Mysteries
JGM is a structure financed by by Direção Geral das Artes - Governo de Portugal
We took the texts of Gil Vicente (The Boat to Hell, The Boat to Purgatory and The Boat to Heaven), has the basis of creation that for us is like a journey.
The texts and ideas of author and founder of Portuguese Theatre, Gil Vicente, fed our creation, and were transformed in apiece where words are engraved in the bodies, involving them in the time and space theyinhabit.
The approach onto the medieval world, onto the basis of European and Portuguese theatre, fits the context of the Company's work on classical texts. It's an investment in the research of such a fertile subject, for the rediscover that it provides, of different world perspectives. On those travels to the common past, we find the medieval concept to turn "the world upside down" to reveal it's details, secrets and subtleties. This concept, by its operational, has become one of the piece's subtle dramaturgies. Dramaturgy for the creation of contemporary mysteries.
For The Boats we have developed a work system that unfolds in two directions, which we try to coexist: the performance and real time interactive technologies. We returned to the travel theme. Travel to an impossible body, unknown, to a body lost in an empty labyrinth of senses, condemned, impossible timeless body, turned out side out, body that moves itself in a space beyond life, in a death owned space. In the text we search the body, the skeleton, the muscle. We look for the sensitivity underneath language, inside the secrets and the opacity of the senses, of words, as gazes upon the world. This set of texts make the death speak about themselves, about their life and the way they live it. These texts work like inverted mirrors of the world, of a time. They are the texts of an impossible world.
CREDITS
Staging and adaptation of Gil Vicente's text
Director | João Garcia Miguel
Cast | Felix Lozano | Sara Ribeiro | David Pereira Bastos | Costanza Givone
Music and Video | Rui Gato [How]
Costumes | Steve Denton
Interactive Audio-visual Programming | André Sier Technical Director and Light | Luís Bombico
Production Director | Filipa Hora
Dramaturgy Consultant | Teresa Fradique
Set Design Assistant | Mantos
Production Director | Filipa Hora
Photography | Jorge Reis
Assistant Director | João Samões
Producer | Cláudia Figueiredo
Graphic Suport | Red Beard
Production | JGM, Guimarães Capital da Cultura | Festival Gil Vicente
Co-Production | Islotes En Red, Rui Viola Produções
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